This page is a work in progress in preparation for the DemocracyXChange Festival (Oct 16 – 22)Governments around the world are experimenting with giving community members …
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I recently heard from fellow facilitator, Jimbo Clark, who is again conducting face-to-face meetings in Taiwan using Feedback Frames to recognize group priorities and agreements …
The most rewarding part of distributing Feedback Frames is seeing all the ways they support inspiring organizations that make positive impacts in the world. One …
Feedback Frames are used by facilitators like Bryan Boyle to get honest program evaluations and clear-cut priorities out of strategic planning workshops, collaboratively from both …
Read moreBoyling it Down: Using Feedback Frames to Guage Progress
Let’s stop pretending voting with stickers is a good technique for adults to effectively prioritize the options. We know better. The chief reasons that sticker-dot …
On January 30, 2019, we did a fun little drop-in demonstration at the member driven Centre for Social Innovation (CSI) in Toronto’s Annex neighbourhood. The …
On November 7, 2018, Vélo Canada Bikes invited leaders in North America’s bicycle advocacy, planning, engineering, and bicycle manufacturing and distribution industry to a day-long series …
In November 2018, g0v-Toronto, based in Toronto’s Civic Tech community, hosted a 2-day capacity-building workshop. The partnership with Public Digital Innovation Space (PDIS) and Taiwan’s …
Read moreA Feedback Frames Workshop with Taiwan’s Government Innovation Lab
Below is a letter and photos we received from Zach Dripps of the Michiana Area Council of Governments (MACOG) – a regional planning organization in …
One of the unique features of Feedback Frames is that the results can consistently be tabulated and compared quantitatively. Simply count the number of tokens …
Feedback Frames are a hardware solution that is an upgrade on my previous paper based invention called Idea Rating Sheets. Using the specially designed paper …
Feedback Frames are sometimes called “idea rating frames” which is fine by us! Idea rating is a form of range voting. Participants give each option …
Read moreThat’s right, Idea Rating Frames ARE Feedback Frames!
2017 was a great year for Feedback Frames. After the public launch in the fall of 2016, with a fun video, and the accepting of …
The Regional Municipality of Durham (Ontario, Canada) carried out 2 large face-to-face workshop sessions using Feedback Frames. The 70 participants consisted of Durham staff, representatives …
Read more70 Stakeholders Prioritize Government Energy Plan Goals Using Feedback Frames
High school students put down their smartphones to share opinions using tokens. As part of a Marketing class, students in an Aurora, Ontario high school …
Read moreGrade 11 Students Survey Their Peers Using Feedback Frames
Opportunity knocked this fall. I was invited to demonstrate Feedback Frames at the 6th Annual Summit on Public Consultation and Engagement. It is the largest …
Read moreFeedback Frames are Featured at 2016 Public Consultation Summit
Facilitating facilitators for Facilitation Week. Really! In just 15 minutes they found consensus about consensus.
I’m pleased to share with you a fun 5-minute video I used to launch my fall 2016 crowdfunding campaign for the original full feature design …
Over 25 professional fresh water geeks created a prioritized consensus list of 40 topics for future research. What a great way to end a four-day scientific conference.
Secret voting avoids peer pressure. On June 6, 2016 Mrs. Davidson invited her grade 12 English class to work in pairs to write one page …
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